Lisa Brooks is Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College and the author of Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (Yale University Press 2018). Her first book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), received the Media Ecology Association's Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture in 2011. Deeply rooted in her Abenaki homeland, Brooks’s work has been widely influential in Indigenous Studies and in Early American literature and history. In 2009, Brooks was elected to the inaugural Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), and from 2013-17, she was Chair of the Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Program. She has published articles in American Literary History, the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, Northeastern Naturalist, PMLA, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and the William and Mary Quarterly.